That! That is!
Not only those two students, but others too!
Goto Naoki watched in surprise. Outside the cell door, behind Keli and Sato Kazuma, a dozen or so gaunt, fierce-looking men followed them.
The two in front knocked down the fleeing people, while the dirty, dishevelled people behind them used small knives, or even just sharp stones, to stab at the hearts of those who had fallen to the ground.
It was those who had been captured and brought here!
"Ah ah ah ah!"
"I'll kill you! I'll kill you!" Those who had been brought here, amidst the wails of the fallen monsters, pounded the ground with all their might, venting the emotions they had suppressed for so many days.
"No! Don't!" A ghoul, ridden by someone holding a stone who hadn't managed to stab its heart after several tries, kept pushing with its hands, begging for mercy.
"No! When we shouted 'no,' who cared about us?! What did you do? You contacted my children, made them send money, and sent videos of me being tortured in front of them! Then, after they were deep in debt, you disappeared, leaving me here to grow leaves for you!
You made us draw blood and store it in a database, so if some important person needed an organ, they'd take it from us! Every month, you'd assess our workload, and those with the lowest workload would all be fed to you monsters!
I just didn't have an extra house for my child's marriage and didn't want to bother them, so I chose to wander alone, and you want to destroy my family!"
There was more than one similar roar; there were others as well.
"My son! My son only said that the gruel you fed to pigs, which even pigs wouldn't eat, was too little! You turned him into a monster! And you even roasted him with a branding iron in front of me, cut off his limbs, and skinned him! I'll make you taste it too!"
Roars and screams echoed one after another throughout this mountain structure.
Kazuma saw Goto Naoki's side and immediately turned back, shouting.
"Whoever found keys, gather them and see if any fit this room!"
Soon, someone came over with keys.
These were not all the people Keli rescued. There were a great many "backup ingredients" imprisoned in this building, but it was to be expected. Even if the total number of ghouls was kept under 100, and they ate once a week, with a person turning into a ghoul after about three meals, the standing reserve here would need to be at least over 300 for these things to feel secure.
After Keli breached 3 rooms from the mountain-side entrance, the number of people rescued was roughly around 30, but half of them completely ignored Kazuma and Keli's words and ran straight down the mountain.
However, Keli didn't mind. The fact that half of the people chose to risk their lives to kill these things with them, instead of taking the chance to truly escape during the day, already showed that these things were truly inhuman.
Soon, a person behind came over with keys.
Goto Naoki watched Keli, who continued to rush past his line of sight, engaging in gunfire ahead and opposite, and then watched Kazuma, who was constantly trying different keys to find the one for this room's door.
His long-numbed spirit began to ignite little by little with leaping flames, and the blood that had turned cold from despair was once again filled with scalding blood.
"Hey! Are you alright, old man!"
After Goto Naoki nodded, Kazuma looked at Goto Michiyo and Goto Niri, who were locked in the cage.
"Madam! Little sister, are you alright? We found some water left by those people behind us, you can drink some if you don't mind."
Immediately, others followed Kazuma and rushed in.
"Brother, you go first! We'll unlock the cages here."
These were a few people who looked injured, only casually bandaged with rags, but were still moving with effort.
"Okay, once you've unlocked them, rest here for a bit."
Kazuma looked at these people who had rushed too far ahead and been hit by the enemy's bullets over Keli, yet still insisted on continuing forward. He nodded and left the room.
Goto Naoki watched Kazuma's retreating back. He knew that if a riot occurred, the best outcome would only be for a portion to escape; no one would think of resisting or rescuing more people.
When people are confused, they need a firm voice, a resolute attitude. Even if that voice is wrong, it can still make confused people move forward.
And it was precisely because there were two foreign intruders that more people chose to continue this way; they would also advance in such an orderly manner instead of various messy scenes occurring during escape.
His cloudy eyes looked at the prison door, and he unconsciously uttered a word.
"H…ero…"
...
On the other front, Keli and Kazuma, who had caught up, were increasingly shocked as they killed their way through this cave.
Because here, they not only had a very large storage of firearms, and storage for knives and shields, but even explosives. If they hadn't broken in fast enough, and instead attacked on a large scale from the outside, giving the mountain people time to retreat, then the consequences of a single explosive going off would have been unimaginable.
Moreover, the scale here was unbelievably large.
Endless stairs, corridors, and rooms.
The rooms had various uses. Some contained people in shackles, performing secondary processing of drugs.
Some were dark, damp rooms filled with messy bunk beds.
Some looked better, seemingly where the mountain workers lived, tiled, floored, and even had internet access.
Keli remembered that when he interrogated the residents down the mountain, they said one mountain was used for storing ingredients and making money, and the other mountain was where some important people lived, and they couldn't go to the other mountain, and there were minecart connections between the two mountains.
And Keli confirmed this point because those people kept running downwards as they fought and retreated.
At this moment, on the other mountain.
Jingxin, who had received the order to blow up the minecarts and let all the incompetent ones on that mountain die at the hands of that monster, even if it meant preventing them from quickly reaching this mountain through the tunnel, was instead speaking other words to his subordinates.
"You go support Tianhu Mountain; this poor monk will follow shortly."
After all his subordinates had received their orders and left, Jingxin looked in another direction.
That was a pond full of lotus leaves, a place usually guarded.
"Shazi, it's been 14 years. This poor monk finally has a chance to take you away."
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